Calculating Machines: Recent and Prospective Developments and Their Impact on Mathematical Physics ; And, Calculating Instruments and MachinesCalculating Instruments and Machines was originally published in 1949 by the University of Illinois Press. It is Volume VI in The Babbage Institute Reprint Series. |
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adder adding unit addition algebraic analytical engine approximation arithmetical operations ax˛ Babbage's binary boundary conditions built calculating machine Cambridge capacity carried carry-over characteristics Charles Babbage Institute circuits coded coefficients computing connections control system counter decimal digits delay line differential analyser EDSAC electrical electronic elements Eniac equation of heat equipment evaluated example finite differences form of storage formula function given half-adder Hartree Harvard Mark heat conduction input tables instrument integrand integraph integration interconnections interpolation interval involved iterative method iterative process Laboratory large number linear Mark I Calculator mechanical minor cycle multiplication obtained operating instructions ordinary differential equations output partial differential equation possible problem pulse punched cards punched tapes quantities relays representation of numbers represented rotation satisfy sequence of operations serial set of equations set-up shaft signal simultaneous single specified successive switches tape temperature tion transfer trial solutions values voltage Yn+1